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subjected himself to ridicule and even violence by attempting to introduce the use of the same. Under the administration of President John Adams he was made public printer and estab- lished his printing office and bindery in Wash- ington, D.C. He was married June 7, 1781, to Mary, daughter of John Jacob and Eebecca Weiss of Philadelphia, Pa. Subsequently he returned to Philadelphia, He died at Fort Allen, Pa., Dec. 1, 180o.

CIST, Charles, editor, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., April 24, 1793; son of Charles and Mary (Weiss) Cist. He was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia and joined the U.S. army shortly after the outbreak of the war of 1812. He served on active duty until the close of the war, when he took up his residence in Pittsburg, Pa., and from there removed to Har- mony, Pa. He was married in 1817 to Janet, daughter of Edward and Sarah Vv'"hite of Whites- town, Pa. In 1827-28 he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he later opened the first Sunday school in the place and managed it until it outgrew his superintendence, when the different churches undertook the supervision of the work. In 1843 he established The Western Weekly Advertiser, an historical journal, and later changed the name to Cisfs Advertiser. The paper was discontinued in 1853. He also published in 1841, 1851 and 1859 works descriptive of Cincinnati, and is the author of The CinrAnnati Miscellany (2 vols., 1846). He died at College Hill, v. suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1868.

CIST, Henry Martyn, lawyer, was born in Cin- cinnati. Ohio, 7eb. 20, 1839; son of Charles and Janet (White) Cist; great* grandson of Peter Lawson Koch, who came from Sweden in 1641 with the third Swedish colony and settled upon the Delaware ; and grand-nephew of Col. Jacob Weiss, deputy quartermaster -gener- al under General Mifflin during the Revolutionary war and who was chief quartermaster with General Greene's ar- my in his southern campaign. He was iij graduated at Farm- ,»\\^?v.\ ^\W'llj/'/j ^'■'^ college in 1858, ''^ - ^ ^ /^' '^ ^^^ admitted to the

^^^>^p^V"^*f^^ bar in 1G60, r.nd prac- ^ tiscd lav/ in Cincin-

nati. He enlisted in April, 1861, as a private in the 6th Ohio infr.ntry, and was promoted adjutant, 74th Oliio volunteer infantry. Oct. 22, 1861. Early in 1862 he was appointed post-adju-

tant of Camp Chase and served as such during the confinement of General Buckner's troops, captured on Feb. 16, 1862, at Fort Donelson. He then served with his regiment in Tennessee and in September, 1862, was appointed acting assistant adjutant-general of Miller's brigade. In July, 1863, he was appointed acting assistant adjutant- general of the department of the Cumberland. He served under Generals Rosecrans and Thomas until January, 1866, when he resigned. He was promoted captain and assistant adjutant-general April 30, 1864, and major and assistant adjutant- general March 13, 1865. The brevet rank of brigadier-general was conferred upon him March 13, 1865, for gallant conduct at the battle of Stone river. He was corresponding secretary of the society of the Army of the Cumberland, 1869-91. He was originator of the Chickamauga national park. In 1892-95 he travelled in Europe for rest and recreation and did not again enter active practice. He wrote The Army of the Cumberland (1882) ; edited twenty volumes of Reports of the Society of the Army of f lie Cumber- land (1868-'92) and contribvxted articles to maga- zines. He died in Rome, Italy, Dec. 17, 1902.

CIST, Jacob, scientist, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., March 13, 1782; the eldest son of Charles and Mary (Weiss) Cist. He was gradu- ated at the Moravian school, Nazareth, Pa., and was connected with the post office department, Washington, D.C, 1800-08, when he removed to Wilkes Barre, Pa. There he was appointed post- master and retained the position till his death. He devoted much of his leisure to painting and literature, contributing for years to The Literary Magazine, The Portfolio, and to the local papers of Pennsylvania. He invented and patented a mill to grind colors for paints and in 1808 secured a patent for manufacturing a mineral black for printer's ink from Lehigh anthracite coal, as a substitute for India ink. For many years he was interested in the mining and introduction of anthracite coal, and in 1815 published a pamphlet, " Anthracite Coal,"' which attracted general attention in the eastern states. He was one of the founders of the Luzerne county agricultural society ; was treasurer of that county and also of the Wilkes Barre bridge company for three years. He geologized nearly the entire territory of Luzerne county, locating coal, manganese clay and iron ore. The eminent French scientist Alexander Brongniart named several fossil plants after Mr. Cist, including " Calamites Cistii," " Pecopteris Cistii," " Sigillavia Cistii," and 1807, to Sarah, daughter of Judge Matthias and Mary (Burritt) Hollenback of Wilkes Barre, Pa. He prepared an exhaustive work on American entomology with several thousand original
 * ' Menropteris Cistii." He was married Aug. 25,